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Tesco Vee and The Meatmen- Meat Vol. 1 VHS tape 4 hrs of live videos straight from Tesco Vee Way USA

Here’s something for you all. Tesco Vee sent this VHS tape to a friend many years ago- it is 4 hours of what he called “the best quality available” of Meatmen and Tesco appearances. Some of these clips have surfaced in better quality (like the Wilson Center 1982 show), but I have never seen a lot of this stuff. Most of it is unlabeled but it includes live shows, multicam shows, TV appearances, the Way USA TV show, and more.

Recorded by: Various, tape created by Tesco Vee
Transfer: Shayne Stacy
Equipment: JVC HRS9800 (no TBC, picture stabilization on) and Canopus ADVC300

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Minor Threat, Meatmen, Whipping Boy, Crucif*cks- Civic Players Hall, Lansing Mi 6/16/82 1st gen VHS

Every morning, I check what is on the ol’ tape list vs. what has already been posted to youtube or elsewhere for the On This Date in History post. There are some things that you just automatically assume are out there because fans have already dug up all there is from the band(s). I’m glad I did a quick search for this one- it’s not out there anywhere.
Apparently this was broadcast on cable TV. Michigan cable was ALWAYS the coolest, mainly due to Russ Gibb… but this doesn’t seem to be a Russ video. I wish I could get access to this 1st gen VHS tape so I could give it a proper lossless transfer, denoise and audio normalize. This one is good, but it would be nice to make it as good as possible.
Few songs from each band. Crucif*cks is 2 camera, the rest single cam.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: “Squirly”
Extract and prep for upload: Shayne

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